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Report on Battle of Britain Airshow DX

The Friday before airshow days at DX are well worth a visit with arrivals and display practives all day together with private arrivals so busy all day. You may also see a display that is interestingly different to what will be in the show. There was a bit of a queue when we arrived just before 10am. The weather is bright sunshine with hardly a cloud with a very gently breeze. So far most of the activity has been the pleasure flights and private arrivals plus a Harvards and I think a Yak.
A 3 ship Spitfire display has just been up with SM845 piloted by John Romaine, I think, returning with a bit of misfiring and calling for his service team to be on hand.
A Corsair is now going up for a practice.
Very sunny causing the usual problems.

I had just got round to seeing the glass as half full instead of half empty, when some sod came and drank it......

I was there today and it was quite pleasant. The car park was chokka, and we had to park under the Hurricane at the entrance.
Nice selection of aircraft flying... The commentator said there would be six hurricanes flying.

Engine Failure:.... A condition which occurs when all fuel tanks mysteriously become filled with air.

Ah there you are Brian. There is NOT a forum for airshows, and we have already been through all this. Airshows is a section in Photographic. These threads are a full report and discussion on specific airshows and is surely of interest to many people. In the past you complained about RIAT not being Historic when in fact it does have significant historic content. Strangely I do not see you passing the same comments on Duxford Diary, which is an excellent thread but which often posts pictures of modern aircraft passing through. Nobody has any problems with that. Duxford Diary has a very large and excellent photographic content using your argument it should be in photographic.

I really would be grateful if you would explain what your problem really is, why you visit the threads when you do not like them and why you feel the need to comment at all. You are an excellent photographer and I am sure we are all grateful that you share your work on here and you would be very welcome to contribute to the thread.

I had just got round to seeing the glass as half full instead of half empty, when some sod came and drank it......

Re the P51s. I did not see a collision between the two, which doesn't mean there was not one. But one P51 was climbing to join Sally B and the other never really gained any height from taking offcand was very low and turning north declaring an emergency. The other P51 then turned back to join the one in trouble and both were then out of sight to the north of the airfield. The two Skytrains were on the left down wind with gear down. With the announcement of an emergency they geared up and diverted to hold. The emergency P51 must have been extremely low as we did not see it cross the boundary and put down on runway 24 hard and stopped very short and was blocking the runway for a short time. The Skytrains landed on the grass as did Sally B when she had finished here display. The P51 was then towed clear of the runways.

I had just got round to seeing the glass as half full instead of half empty, when some sod came and drank it......

I take it you didn't notice the simile face after my post and the winged angel after the Trolly Aux post afterwards. A bit of banter between us and I have been posting on this thread and not complaining about this thread.

They are saying Miss Helen landed on 06 grass which the picture clearly shows and the damage. That would explain why we didn't see it landing 24 but not how several of us didn't see it pass right under our nose!

I had just got round to seeing the glass as half full instead of half empty, when some sod came and drank it......